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u ve chosen to submit and your rationale for doing so describe the strategies you ve taken in these five pieces and trends in your efforts to bridge the academic public gap that may correlate with your own interests or perhaps something intrinsic to your corpus be prepared to present a single outstanding piece to the rest of the class possibly be prepared also for it to be shared in some more public way to be brainstormed by our class at a later time public literary humanities a syllabus august 13 2018 5 46 pm below is an online version of syllabus for the fall 2018 syllabus of engl 693b public humanities at west virginia university a fuller version with course and university policies can be found on the class ecampus site and will be distributed in class i hope you can read in the course s excesses read on my enthusiasm for the subject and the discussions i hope it engenders i m looking forward to a fantastic semester ryan claycomb ryan claycomb mail wvu edu course description you may have heard there s a crisis in the humanities that statement might take a number of forms and itself be contestable and we ll contest it but just as sure as discourse may arise around a crisis in the humanities you can expect to hear about public humanities as a remedy the logic is thus our disciplines are in crisis because we are in some way out of touch with the public oh my god you can see how many scare quotes are in there just dying to be interrogated and we ll do that this semester this course is an inquiry into how humanities scholarship primarily but not exclusively in the literary fields engages a broader public audience to do this i ve imagined the syllabus as having four strands that i ll first articulate as threads of inquiry and then later more tentatively broken out into a series of objectives for the course they are what are the current debates about the state of the humanities and efforts at public engagement by humanities scholars and artists how might we rigorously theorize concepts like the humanities the public the common good public intellectuals and others what insights do cultural studies methodologies offer about the ways and sites along which culture is produced and consumed and through which humanities knowledge is produced and consumed what tools genres and rhetorics might we use to re mediate our own scholarly pursuits for publics beyond our own classrooms and other sites of internal disciplinary conversation i m thinking about this course in this way whether you are a first year mfa student or a phd student nearing the end of coursework or wherever else you ll probably be thinking about the genres and forms of your work so am i as the director of our university s humanities center i have been recently thinking very hard about how to connect the things that happen in this department to things happening in other departments on campus to large scale shifts in academia to public audiences nationwide and recently to appalachian publics i ve been learning a lot along the way i don t have any great illusions about my expertise here except that i have been thinking hard about this for a couple of years now but also know that in terms of the tools for public engagement you all will bring things to the table that i don t have such as new media tools knowledge of fan cultures explanations for why my teenagers like inexplicable cultural artifacts etc we re here to learn together and i hope this course will be a fertile ground for that because this course is connected to my work in the humanities center i ll ask that you all be engaged in that entity as well by coming to center events subscribing to our communications and keeping abreast of our work in a certain way the center is my research lab for this course and likely the best way for us to test some of the ideas we have in this class you can see what the center is up to at http humanitiescenter wvu edu note many ideas readings and discussion topics derived from my experience this summer at the mellon school for theatre and performance research thanks to mellon school faculty including school director martin puchner carrie preston andrew sofer other faculty and speakers there and my fellow participants for the inspiration objectives by the end of this semester students will be able to bore friends at parties with a passionate defense of humanities disciplines convince parents of the extraordinary value of your present pursuit and grind your teeth as you struggle not to comment on this or that attack on defense of broad generalization about the humanities or for that matter the liberal arts more broadly on inside higher ed because in all seriousness you will have a deep and articulated position about the present state of the value of the humanities elaborate well theorized definitions of or the problems of defining key concepts like the humanities publics expertise public intellectuals and the like useful for dissertations and dinner parties alike engage in informed discussion about a range of ways that various publics engage literary humanities inquiry and knowledge making with at least one specific argument about a particular instance that you ve chosen to analyze deeply in an ideal world you should be able to and also want to present this at a relevant academic conference synthesize academic knowledge rhetorical skill and new technologies when appropriate to reframe work that you have produced in an academic context across several different genres for audiences outside the academy my baseline objective is that you will be able to reframe the work period but perhaps other related objectives include doing so in ways that will be enchanting for your audiences and that you will be able to reflect on those processes in ways that illuminate our meta discussions about the value of doing so in the first place readings there is a lot of reading and web browsing and listening in this course but i have tried to be judicious sometimes especially early in the semester i have failed and there will be lots of prose to work through please do your best to read pdfs on ecampus are marked links have the appropriate websites listed in the syllabus and i have ordered the following books as required emily st john mandel station eleven peter brooks ed the humanities and public life claudia rankine citizen an american lyric caryl churchill cloud 9 you ll also note that several books listed for our october 2 class are ordered as recommended you ll need to purchase only one we ll divide up who will cover which ones on the first evening of class assignments public re mediations at the beginning of the semester you will propose to me the corpus of humanities knowledge you want to work with to a large degree the content is incidental except that it needs to be something that you already have some solid academic knowledge on and can live with all semester long then at various points in the semester i ll ask you to present your content within the various genres we ll be discussing there are eight assignments along the way which will be graded on timely completion in public work deadlines matter but for the first deadlines these are drafts some of you will do some of these expertly but i suspect there will be struggles genre switching is never as easy as it seems it should be you ll submit a revised portfolio of your most successful five at the end of the semester timely completion of drafts 10 points portfolio 30 points public humanities analysis for your final project i ll ask you to choose any subject discussed during the semester or a closely related topic and analyze theorize it through a cultural studies literary critical lens the paper should be conference length 8 10 pages and tightly argued topics can range widely and i ll ask you to submit a proposal and annotated bibliography on november 13 the paper will be due during finals week annotated bibliography 10 points paper 40 points participation discussion matters and graduate work is predicated on frequent substantive participation the classroom climate is as dependent upon what you bring to the classroom as any other element it is difficult to express this without sounding authoritarian which i m really not but at this level attendance is expected for all but the most extreme circumstances along with significant contribution to classroom discussion from every student every week with many of you effectively in some stage of training for the professoriate or another teaching position you should be able to generate and sustain dialogue about texts and ideas obviously i hope to be an active part of this process and perhaps even the most regular participant but this class should never be reduced to monologue or regular lecture 10 points relatedly classroom climate my ideal graduate classroom is one that once set in motion allows me to participate merely as a more experienced member among peers insofar as i hope to treat you as peers i hope you will do so with each other as well doctoral students i expect will be classroom leaders in bringing a robust knowledge to the classroom in keeping discussion lively and importantly in helping along other classmates in ways that are neither impatient nor condescending less experienced students in whatever program i expect you to learn quickly when necessary both from me and from your fellow students and to actively contribute what you have to contribute i dislike equally the tendency to sit silently in discussion for fear of failure and the kind of academic snobbery that engenders that fear of failure in the first place in a graduate classroom the boats all rise together course schedule subject to change pending in class announcement or for unavoidable last minute changes via email note for off campus readers some links may be behind paywalls 8 21 introduction context definitions stakes today s key questions what are the humanities and what are they for is there a crisis in the humanities is a turn toward broader public audiences an appropriate response how can we begin to use our existing expertise both content and skill to effect such a turn and what might the consequences be who benefits who pays please read a few of the following before our first class fish stanley will the humanities save us fish stanley the uses of the humanities part two shumway david why the humanities must be public jay gregory the engaged humanities principles and practices for public scholarship and teaching ellison julie guest column the new public humanists fish stanley stop trying the sell the humanities lanchester john can economists and humanists ever be friends other columns from https profession mla hcommons org 2014 8 28 publics and counterpublics today s key questions what are publics and how have they been constituted over time how do public private distinctions come to bear on academic work how do market logics and democratic logics change the stakes for humanistic inquiry read excerpts from jurgen habermas the structural transformation of the public sphere michael warner publics and counterpublics hannah arendt from the human condition martha nussbaum from not for profit why democracy needs the humanities listen making publics podcast episode 1 and episode 14 optional ep 13 attend confluences multidisciplinary approaches to the human dimensions of water 8 30 4pm milano reading room downtown library 9 4 who owns culture i public intellectuals and the grassroots today s key questions what is a public intellectual and who gets to be one what is the role of the public intellectual in a democracy and what fantasies attend that role implicitly what does grassroots and or populist expertise look like read russell jacoby the last intellectuals introduction lloyd kramer james baldwin in paris ellington dustin women intellectuals and the art of the withering quip a review of sharp by michelle dean richard posner public intellectuals ch 1 and 5 catherine liu american idyll intro and conclusion thomas nichols the death of expertise intro ch1 conclusion mark greif what s wrong with public intellectuals screen i am not your negro dir raoul peck we ll discuss a group screening assignment propose a corpus 9 11 who owns culture ii cultural appropriation today s key questions in this case study about cultural appropriation what counts as appropriation how have discourses about cultural appropriation made their way from academia into contemporary discourse what promise does the op ed offer academics seeking to engage the public on matters such as this read baruti kopano soul thieves young and haley nothing comes from nowhere arnd schneider on appropriation skim the links in the post 7 resources on cultural appropriation i k when respect for diversity is taken to crazy extremes the economist may 15 2018 op eds by tony swofford e maddock dillon and michael shulman the op ed project 9 18 reading communities and community events today s key questions what are ways that public audiences engage literature beyond the classroom to what degree does humanities knowledge make its way to these communities to what degree do these communities create humanities knowledge and what are the stakes of this creation what role do live events and the performance of humanities knowledge delivery play in their communication read janice radway from a feeling for books introduction and ch 9 elizabeth catte stereotypes on the syllabus emily st john mandel station eleven check out sites for nea big read pecha kucha nerd nite tedxwvu 3mt and this gem attend emily st john mandel conversation 9 19 7 30 cac due op ed draft 9 25 literary journalism and book culture the book review and the feature essay today s key questions what is the shape of literary journalism who are the audiences for literary journalism and to what degree to they constitute a public does reaching the publics of literary journalism meet the imperatives to do public humanities read jill lepore the strange and twisted life of frankenstein jordana rosenberg gender trouble on mother s day jordy rosenberg ten trans books i love stephen pasqualina zora neale hurston against the world louis menand karl marx yesterday and today gay roxane lots of people love to kill a mockingbird roxane gay isn t one of them check out sites for avidly lit hub public books new york review of books london review of books la review of books due event flash talk proposal 10 2 prose debates trade books and the book consuming public today s key questions can academics write well j k what are the rhetorical and generic dimensions of prose for academic and public audiences how do recent examples of books written by humanities scholars reveal the promises and pitfalls of a public approach read george orwell politics and the english language james miller is bad writing necessary kieran healy fuck nuance and one of the following stephen greenblatt tyrant maureen corrigan and so we read on da miller jane austen 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